Maria Puetz-Willems, Editor in Chief, hospitalityInside.com

Maria Puetz-Willems is the founder and editor in chief of www.hospitalityInside.com. This online magazinge for the international hotel management was launched in March 2005. Based in Augsburg, Germany, the magazine publishes in two languages (German/English) every Friday, focuses on pure editorial content (no advertisements), geographically on continental Europe. The content is based on own research and background articles. Readers are the executives from the hotel industry (chains and upscale private hotels), banking, project development, consulting etc in 20 countries today. Before taking this big step, Maria Puetz-Willems worked as a freelancer for 16 years. From 1989 to 2005, she contributed to leading hotel trade, economic and lifestyle media in Germany, Switzerland and UK.
She started her career with a classical two year traineeship at a small regional newspaper in Germany, followed by five years as an editor with the daily paper "Saarbruecker Zeitung" and two years with the hotel trade magazine "Top hotel", Germany.
In October 2002, she released her first book "Wellness + Wirtschaft - professionell und profitabel" ("Wellness + Economy - professional and profitable") as publisher and co-author. A second book on "medical spas" is in progress.
Since 2003, she speaks as an expert on wellness at trade fairs and association conferences. For four years (2003-2006) she was a guest speaker on wellness at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. In 2008 she started to lecture at the University of Applied Sciences, Bad Honnef (for Hospitality Real Estate Management/spa-topics).
In 2004 Maria Puetz-Willems co-organised the 1st "Forum Wellness" at ITB Berlin, the world's largest tourism fair in Berlin. Since 2006 she is responsible for the content development and moderation of the hotel conference "Hospitality Day" at ITB Berlin. At the EXPO REAL 2008 Munich she organised the sessions of the "Hospitality Industry Dialogue" for the first time.